Jimmy, throw down a ration. The rest get back in place.

They provide us with food, water, raw materials and energy.

The main reasons for the food shortage were continuous insecurity and a 45 per cent decline in food production owing to drought.

The principal objective of the World Food Summit had been to address the causes of food insecurity and to make a commitment to the achievement of food security for all people.

Paragraph 2 (a) of the guidelines (the right to adequate food)

The World Food Programme (WFP) works directly with African Governments to tackle food insecurity by providing food aid and technical assistance to address the major symptoms and causes of food insecurity faced by Governments throughout sub Saharan Africa.

61. Participants in the World Food Summit had affirmed that poverty was a major cause of food insecurity and that poverty eradication was critical to improving access to food.

WFP has also provided food assistance to food insecure households, internally displaced persons and returnees, as well as mounting nutritional support programmes in support of rehabilitation activities.

WFP is also promoting repatriation by ensuring that sufficient quantities of food are available as transit and repatriation rations for all those wishing to return to their countries of origin.

FAO plays a catalytic role in the United Nations system by developing a food insecurity and vulnerability information and mapping system (FIVIM) at national and international levels to identify the food insecure (their location and number, and the causes of their poverty and food insecurity).

25. WFP also remains a key agency in Rwanda in the field of post emergency rehabilitation through the implementation of food for work schemes across the country.

Biotechnology is an important component of the FAO International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) programme in food and agriculture, which contributes actively to biotechnology applications in agriculture, forestry and fisheries.

Poverty and underdevelopment were the root causes of the lack of food security in those countries.

Attempts to alleviate the food situation by promoting home gardens have failed for several reasons.

Dry and fresh rations

At its 123rd session in November 2002, the FAO Council had formally established the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) for the Elaboration of a Set of Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security.

Additionally, FAO is the technical executing agency of the project for regional development of the Highlands of Fouta Djallon.

Although the World Food Programme (WFP) is able to distribute food under heavily armed military escorts, many other organizations find fees for escorts prohibitively expensive or do not use them on principle.

Most of the investments are aimed at producing food or other crops for export from the countries in which the land is acquired, for the obvious reason that richer countries can pay more for the output. More than 40 of such projects aim to export food to the source country suggesting that food security is a major reason for buying the land.

The briefing of the Executive Director of the World Food Programme on El Niño s potential impact on food security and on The World Food Programme Task Force set up to enable a rapid response to food emergency situations , scheduled for Monday, 15 December 1997, has been cancelled.

This is important to bear in mind, because rising food prices have historically been the trigger for political revolutions. The three revolutions that made the modern world, in France, Russia, and China, all had their immediate origins in food shortages, fear of hunger, and disputes about food pricing.

37. In that connection, the Russian Federation welcomed the convening of the World Food Summit, and hoped that it would carry out a comprehensive analysis of all elements of food security and determine ways to eradicate the primary causes of hunger and food shortages in various areas of the world.

Food aid is viewed at WFP as a means to achieve food security.

While IAEA, FAO, WFP, UNDP and UNEP continued to provide their documents free of charge, other organizations did not do so.

Tons of food gets plowed under the ground because there s so much of it farmers can t get the prices they want. Tons of cheap food (corn, for instance) is used to create more expensive food (like steak).

However, FAO was not convinced that a special rapporteur would be the best mechanism for that purpose, for the following reasons.

10. World Food Programme (WFP)

WFP will provide the returnees with a three month food ration as well as non food items.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

The State of Food Insecurity in the World. FAO, Rome.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

INFOODS International Network of Food Data Systems

FAO United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

GIEWS Global Information and Early Warning System (FAO)

WFP, FAO and NGOs

(c) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

GIEWS Global Information and Early Warning System (FAO)

In addition, the Joint FAO IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, in collaboration with the Agency's laboratories in Seibersdorf, Austria, is developing a radionuclide countermeasure information system to address concerns about radionuclide contamination.

The World Food Programme (WFP) is carrying out a relief and recovery programme for Western Saharan refugees, budgeted at approximately 40 million over a two year period, from September 2004 to August 2006.

Nationals of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea had crossed national borders for two main reasons political persecution and the food crisis.

In Sierra Leone, WFP and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) led development of the first food security strategy for the Government.

WFP has correspondingly increased food distribution, delivering food assistance to over 1 million beneficiaries in July and increasing the number of food drop locations in the region.

Life sustaining rehabilitation assistance is provided through food for work, food for training and food for seeds, in partnership with FAO.

26. FAO s Special Programme for Food Security will also include the Democratic Republic of the Congo.